[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: distutils2/packaging now provides a remove function and a pysetup remove command. -- dependencies: -distutils removing old files, deleting unneeded old files from installed location. resolution: - fixed stage: - committed/rejected status: open - closed versions: +Python 3.3 -3rd party ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- dependencies: +distutils removing old files, deleting unneeded old files from installed location. ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- versions: +3rd party -Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org added the comment: Status update: Josip implemented PEP 376 to provide the installation database and Alexis is working on distutils2.install_tools to provide an uninstall function. User-level tools like pip can reuse this code to provide an uninstall functionality. -- nosy: +alexis, eric.araujo ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Changes by Éric Araujo mer...@netwok.org: -- components: +Distutils2 -Distutils keywords: +gsoc versions: +Python 2.5, Python 2.6, Python 2.7, Python 3.1, Python 3.2 -Python 3.3 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Changes by Giampaolo Rodola' billiej...@users.sourceforge.net: -- nosy: +giampaolo.rodola ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: I will continue to discuss this in distutils-SIG: Marc-André Lemburg proposed me to introduce the uninstall command from mxSetup.py (from mxBase, http://www.egenix.com/products/python/mxBase/) So I need to ask for opinions first -- assignee: - tarek ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org added the comment: If an uninstall registry is feasible, the it could be neat. The suggested behaviour of unlinking known files based on the source directory is not all that inconvenient: it's by no means perfect, but it has its uses and is familiar to many, since it is how GNU autotools behaves. ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
philobyte peter.a.si...@gmail.com added the comment: python setup.py uninstall should do all the same processing as 'install' but whenever it gets to the point of copying a file to a system destination, it should instead unlink the destination. besides the obvious use, here is another one: when upgrading a package, and the new version no longer includes certain files, just installing the new version will leave leftovers of the previous version installed. using uninstall beforehand will clean out the cruft. -- nosy: +philobyte ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: philobyte, this means you have to keep the source somewhere to be able to run setup.py uninstall. This is not handy imho. What about a uninstall registery in Python that keeps track of the files installed for each package ? this would let us have an uninstall command that could run on its own. uninstall packagename ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
Tarek Ziadé ziade.ta...@gmail.com added the comment: This would require a detailed description on how such a feature would work. -- nosy: +tarek ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
[issue4673] Distutils should provide an uninstall command
New submission from Andy Buckley a...@insectnation.org: It would make package maintenance easier, as well as integration with other build systems e.g. autotools (necessary for projects where not everything is Python), if the distutils supported an uninstallation command, e.g. python setup.py uninstall This would presumably require monitoring of which files were installed where, and it's of course possible to do undesirable things, but exactly the same counter-arguments exist for autotools, and there the uninstall target is an important and useful feature for developers, once you know how to behave in a way to make it safe. -- components: Distutils messages: 77885 nosy: andybuckley severity: normal status: open title: Distutils should provide an uninstall command type: feature request versions: Python 2.5 ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue4673 ___ ___ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
